Word: prager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talking with convicts, guards, prison officials and penologists, the correspondents were driven to personal reflection on potential alternatives to the present system. Karsten Prager of the New York bureau, who toured Car Manhattan's infamous Tombs detention house and North Carolina's progressive Wake Advancement Center, was struck by "the differences between what there is and what there might be." So was Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the cover story with the assistance of Contributing Editor James Simon and Researcher Erika Sanchez. "It seems more shocking and irrational in 1971 than ever before that these conditions...
...almost double the national rate of 5.8%. Seattle's troubles largely have their origin in the troubles of the Boeing Co., which at its peak employed 1 out of 12 people in the Seattle area. But the effects ripple out to touch nearly everyone, as TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reports...
...first visit to the South since his classic work appeared. He has watched the racial problem unfold from afar, he says, and does not pretend that "after ten days in Georgia I have got to the bottom of the South." But in an interview with TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, Myrdal recorded his impressions of what was not a nostalgic return...
...shock wave of attacks on policemen, Philadelphia has been an epicenter. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager made the rounds one night last week with two members of the city's elite, all-volunteer "highway patrol," a highly mobile force distinctly unpopular in the high crime areas where it is deployed. The patrolmen were David Messaros, 29, white, with two years on the force; and Lawrence Boston, 26, black, a four-year veteran. Prager reports their feelings about the perils of their...
Meanwhile in New York, where so much of the ugly action takes place, Correspondent Karsten Prager interviewed ten youngsters at Odyssey House where ex-addicts encourage newcomers as young as twelve to kick the habit. John Austin spent a chilling evening in suburban Westchester County, N.Y., with middle-class high school students who talked freely about police officers, teachers and even doctors who know but don't care about the kids' problem. Other expertise was supplied by Douglas Gasner, whose experience as TIME'S Medicine reporter was invaluable for the box on symptoms parents should watch...